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• OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook

  Published: October 31, 2007, 1:33 am

  Tags: Google Opensocial

  set of common APIs -- called OpenSocial -- to be used for getting data from and writing applications for social networks. Click to continue reading...

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• Google Goes Toe-to-Toe With Facebook

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Mountain View, New York, Application, Choosing, Currently, Customise, Designs, Developers, Distribution, Facebook, Founders, Friends, Google, Hugely, Ilike, Missed, Network, Opensocial, Partners, Recommendation, Service, Site, Stake, Technology, Tools, Wider

  Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, and in this case it looks to be sooner. read more

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• What OpenSocial will look like on LinkedIn [Leaks]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Google, Leaks, Linkedin, Opensocial, Social Networks

  traffic of Google's OpenSocial gang might not quite stack up Facebook, but that doesn't mean the open platform isn't huge news for the smaller players Google rounded up. Here are screen shots detailing how one such partner, LinkedIn, plans to incorporate apps developed for the new platform.LinkedIn's new layout, still in beta testing.

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• Will Google's Facebook roast break the law? [Bad Ideas]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 3:48 pm

  Tags: Bad Ideas, Facebook, Google, Opensocial

  developers to celebrate OpenSocial, Google's also-ran answer to Facebook's app platform. The "CampFire" mentioned? Not a euphemism. We hear that Google is hosting, outside on its main campus, an invite-only, s'mores-cooking, go-gather-some-kindling bonfire to let platform developers get their kum-ba-ya-yas on. "Someone from our team is

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• Bunch of losers and Google gang up on Facebook [The Chart]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Myspace, Ning, Opensocial, Plaxo, Salesforce Com, Social Networks, The Chart

  open platform. It's called OpenSocial, and it's supposed to force developers to reconsider writing apps solely in FBML, the Facebook platform's proprietary language. The idea is that Google will gather a gang of websites whose users combined, will offer an audience as large as Facebook's. It's a fine theory, but let's see the real numbers

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• Another minute, another Google Gang member [Opensocial]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Friendster, Google, Hi5, Linkedin, Ning, Opensocial, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce Com, Six Apart

  another partner for Google's OpenSocial platform. For those of you keeping count at home, don't bother. The list is surely to grow as word gets out. Social network Friendster, for example, wasn't asked to join the Google Gang. The pioneering social network begged to be included after a story leaked on TechCrunch. Google's secrecy is making the

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• Three reasons why Google will beat Facebook at its own game

  Published: October 31, 2007, 6:05 am

  Tags: Facebook, Featured, Goog, Google, Microsoft, Msft, Opensocial, Web 2 0, Web2 0

  Google platform, now dubbed OpenSocial, complete with tools, a management interface and most importantly, a unified software toolset that Google will ensure is compatible with all the sites within its network. In other words, Google is trying to attract Facebook developers, luring them with access not just to the Google family of websites but to

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• Brad Fitzpatrick says "Boo!" and I do too [Halloween]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Brad Fitzpatrick, Dave Morin, Facebook, Feature, Feuds, Google, Halloween, Online Advertising, Opensocial, Owen Thomas, Self Referential, Socialads, Top

  Googler Brad Fitzpatrick has dressed up as Facebook for Halloween. Ironic, since he might easily have been a Facebooker dressing up in Google's primary colors right now. Before jumping from Six Apart, he interviewed at both Facebook and Google. And now the two companies are set up for a tumultuous clash -- not just over hiring one employee, but

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• The New York Times' missing Google quote [Lazy Valleywag]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Brad Stone, Charlene Li, Google, Lazy Valleywag, Media, Miguel Helft, New York Times, Opensocial

  got the scoop about Google's OpenSocial program, they included a quote from Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li. You can still find the quote using Google's search engine, but it's gone from the text of the story, and we can't find any cached version. Why? Perhaps it was cut for space in the final print version. That strikes me as curious,

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• OpenSpeak translated is "gimme" [Web 2.0 To English]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 6:32 pm

  Tags: Google, Opensocial, Valleyspeak, Web 2 0 To English

  Loveable crankster Dave Winer unwraps the etymology of Google's OpenSocial platform. Open Source -- let's see your source code. OpenDoc -- let's get rid of Office. OpenID -- let's see your users. Free Beer -- Web 2.0.

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• MySpace to announce OpenSocial with Google today? [Rumormonger]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Google, Myspace, Opensocial, Rumormonger, Social Networks

  considering joining Google's OpenSocial initiative. An announcement could come as soon as today, a tipster tells my colleague Megan McCarthy. Yesterday, we threw a few pretty charts at you to explain why Google has to rope the News Corp.-owned social network into its posse if it hopes to rein in Facebook's popularity with application developers.

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• Google Gang apologists demand a recount [Facebook]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Friendster, Google, Opensocial, Social Networks, Top

  spreading that Google's OpenSocial is more of a PR triumph than engineering feat. Even partners, such as Friendster, for example, want to make sure you know that they were developing their own developer platforms well before word leaked about Google's plans. On top of that, yesterday we showed you a series of charts indicating just how

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• MySpace, Others Join Google-Led OpenSocial

  Published: November 1, 2007, 5:42 pm

  Tags: Google Opensocial

  high-profile partners to its OpenSocial initiative. They are MySpace, Bebo, and SixApart, which now join LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Friendster, among several others, in the alliance or coalition. Click to continue reading...

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• Charlene Li comes clean on OpenSocial leak [Embargo Breakers]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 5:51 pm

  Tags: Charlene Li, Embargo Breakers, Forrester, Google, Google Gang, New York Times, Opensocial

  Times scoop about Google's OpenSocial program, something we alluded to in a post yesterday about a quote from Li being scrubbed from the Times story. So, why did she say she spilled the beans? Turns out that Li got the embargo dates wrong, thinking that the information could be distributed as of last Friday, instead of this one. As for why the

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• MySpace, Bebo join Google's social crew [Google Gang]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Google, Google Gang, Myspace, Opensocial, Social Networks, Top

  MySpace has joined Google's OpenSocial movement. Another name to add to the anti-Facebook list? British network Bebo. Now, at last, Google's open-standards initiative looks more substantive. For Google's also-ran early adopters, though, there's still a problem: They won't be able to tap into MySpace and Bebo's users to spread their apps

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